Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-22

grnu County gegister
By ELI %. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
STOCKHOLDERS of the Northern Pacific
railroad met at New York on the 18th and
elected directors.
THE British Parliament was prorogued
on the 18th after listening to the custom
airy Queens speech.
THE New York State Republican con-
vention headed it's ticket with Fred Grant
for Secretary of State.
MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN writes the Logan
G. A. r. Post of st. Louis. that she can
not attend the National encampment.
THE value of breadstuff exports from
the United States during August past was
S1S.3S2, "A against SIS, 1881 in August,
1886.
THE distillers' National convention at
Cincinnati appropriated 81 800 of the asso-
cations funds to fight prohibition in Ten
nessee.
SECRETARY BAYARD, Minister Phelps
and Justice Field, of the Supreme Court,
are said to have been selected as the
American commissioners on the fishery
question.
CASEY, one of the men wounded during
the recent melee at Mitchellstown, Ire
land, has since died. Before death he
swore to a deposition identifying the con-
stable who shot him.
THE Loyal Irish Union of Great Britain
has dissolved, because the members are
dissatisfied with the governments Irish
policy. Numbers of the late union have
Joined the Nationalists.
For the eight months ended August 81,
101 railroads in the United States report
aggregate earnings of $196, 251, 225. against
$40, zoe, 0SS, an increase Of 5 25, So, 1877.
Only five roads report decrease.
FREDERICK Koch, aged sixteen years,
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the night of the 18th, while in a fit of
drunken fury, and, when prevented from
injuring her. made an attempt to kill him.
self.
THE Government of Texas and the State
Canvassing Board met on the 18th and
counted the vote cast at the late election,
which stood as follows: Total vote, $780,
800; for prohibition, 126, 1913; against, 221,-
627. majority against % 354
A REBELLION, which proved of short
duration, broke out in Manipore, India, re-
Gently. The rebels penetrated into the
Maharajah's palace, but were repulsed
with loss of nine killed and many
wounded. No further trouble is expected.
THE Toronto (Ont.) Globes London cor
respondent cables a reiteration of the
statement that, on behalf of Canada, the
Fishery Commission will request the free
exchange of natural products in return for
the fishery concessions to the United
States.
THE Navy Department is informed that
Rear-Admiral Green, on August "a, at Leg
horn, Italy, in obedience to orders from
Secretary Whitney, relieved Rear-Admiral
Franklin of the command of the European
squadron. The squadron then left for
Gibraltar.
THERE is considerable dissatisfaction
among the men in the navy over the
wretched quality of the tobacco furnished
them, and for which they are charged in
their pay account, and boycott has
been inaugurated, which will result in the
Government having the poor trash left on
its hands.
THE funeral of Casey, the second victim
$50 t.n fohA lcfO
Ireland, took place on the 10th. Over 1000
persons, eight abreast, all wearing laurel
leaves, followed the remains to the grave.
Father O'Neill, of Cape Colony, has con-
tributed GOO to a fund for monument to
the victims.
THE obsequies of Governor Washington
Bartlett of California, who died in office,
occurred in San Francisco on the 10th, his
remains being taken to Laurel Hill Gene
terry. He was given a state funeral, and
the occasion was in many respects the
most remarkable in the history Of the
Pacific coast.
THE beer and hop factory of a man
named Shadbolt in Warsaw, N. Y, was
discovered to be on fire on the 18th. An
alarm was given, but when the firemen
learned the nature of the fire they refused
to extinguish it. The building and con-
tents were consumed. Warsaw is tenn
perance town.
LIEUTENANT-GovERNoR r. W. WATER
MAN took the oath of office as Governor of
California on the 18th, the executive chair
having been made vacant by the death of
Governor Bartlett. Governor Waterman,
in his address, strongly denounced the
Communists and Socialists as being dam
gerous to American liberty.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has invited the
members of the Senate and House naval
committees and number of other persons
interested in the subject to go down New
York bay ON the Dispatch to witness the
test of the dynamite gun on the Goth inst,
when an effort will be made to destroy
schooner by dynamite shells.
THE United States Consul at Pictou, n.
s., has transmitted to the State Depart
ment the information that a dangerous
and contagious disease exists among
horses and sheep in Nova Scotia, and
threatens the whole of Canada, and may
spread through the United States. The
matter has been referred to the Commits
sioner of Agriculture.
INDEPENDENCE Day was celebrated in